It’s the 7th week of self quarantine and we Austrian people are very lucky because we haven’t been hit very hard by the COVID-19 virus. The home improvement stores are already open again and with may 1st small business can open their doors again too. But why do I tell you this will you ask yourself? Well… all that time at home with nothing to do let me gain some weigh unfortunately . Thats why I started swiping the unhealthy food and treats with healthy treats and dishes. Therefore I needed a chocolatey sweet snack when my sweet tooth was calling me. Healthy brownie bliss balls were born.

Healthy chocolate brownie bliss balls with tahini and cardamom are my new favourite vegan, gluten free and dairy free treat

The chocolate bliss balls are my new favourite thing to snack on when my blood sugar is low or whenever I feel like I deserve some chocolate. What I love the most is the subtle flavour of cardamom, tahini and the tonka bean. These spices go so well with chocolate that I can’t believe I didn’t combine those flavours sooner.

Chocolatey brownie energy balls are the perfect healthy treat and so easy to make

For these vegan healthy treats you only need a blender and the ingredients of course. Even my kids love these little bites full of good ingredients.

• First you need nuts. To be honest you can use any nuts you have at home or prefer. I use a mix of cashews and other mixed nuts.
• Secondly I use pitted dates as a natural sweetener. I love the taste of them very much.
• The spices. Tonka bean and cardamom and a pinch of sea salt. When you don’t have these spices at home its all good just leave them out or use something else like cinnamon or vanilla extract.
• Nut butter. For my recipe I use of course tahini as one part and another nut butter like peanut butter or almond butter for example.
• At last the coconut milk. You can swipe the coconut milk for any other plant based milk of course.
• Unsweetened cocoa powder: the cocoa powder is for the chocolate flavour and to cover the bliss balls.

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Vegan Brownie Bliss Balls with Tahini and Cardamon

5 from 11 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: Dessert, SnackCuisine: healthy, healthy snack

Servings

30

pieces

Prep time

30

minutes

Cooking time

0

minutes

Calories

66

kcal

Total time

1

hour 

These little healhty treats are the perfect sweet snack for the whole family. They are easy to make and the tahin and cardamom give them a unique and iresistible taste. It will be hard to stop snacking on them.

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup 1/2 cashews

• 1/2 cup 1/2 mixed nuts

• 2 cups 2 dates pitted

• 1 tbsp 1 tahini

• 1 tbsp 1 nut butter peanut for example

• 1 tsp 1 cardamom

• 1 tsp 1 tonka bean grated, you can use vanilla extract instead too

• 3 tbsp 3 unsweetened cocoa powder

• 1/2 tsp 1/2 sea salt

• 2 tbsp 2 coconut milk

• 1 tbsp 1 dessicated coconut

• 1/2 cup 1/2 unsweetened cocoa powder for coating

Directions

• Soak the nuts for 2 hours in warm water.
• Drain the nuts and put them with all the other ingredients but the half cup of cocoa for coating, into a blender.
• Blend everything until smooth.
• Put the batter into a bowl cover it and let it rest for 1 hour in the fridge.
• Form little balls about the size of 1/2 a tbsp and roll them in the reserved unsweetened cocoa powder.
• You can keep the energy balls up to 2 weeks in an airtight container in your fridge.´
• Happy snacking <3.

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 66kcal
• Carbohydrates: 10g
• Protein: 2g
• Fat: 3g
• Saturated Fat: 1g
• Sodium: 41mg
• Potassium: 129mg
• Fiber: 2g
• Sugar: 6g
• Vitamin C: 1mg
• Calcium: 11mg
• Iron: 1mg

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Savory sweet potato and spinach waffles and how I’m trying to find my way to new health

I originally invented this recipe for my whole30 diet which I started about a week ago. I’m doing whole 30 because I have had health issues for yearsand that diet is one of my last tries to get a handle on my health.

I’m a morning person and hence I need my breakfast in the morning. But since I’m not allowed to eat my beloved oatmeal I wanted to invent something different because I can’t eat scrambled eggs or chia pudding every morning ?.

Have you ever been on a paleo diet and wanted to have waffles or bread? You may have tried one or too recipes where you had to use soaked cashew nuts? Gotcha ?? Yes me too . I tried to make bread but it was just a soggy wet sponge. Not good. Not good. But I knew that sometimes cashews do the trick for a good consistency.

Savory Sweet Potato & Spinach Waffles are so good!

I’m an experimentalist by heart! That’s why sometimes there are big explosions in my kitchen. But sometimes I get lucky and find some good things in my inventions too like these waffles.

I have a good sense for baking. I know how to whip up a cake or pancake batter without a recipe. Maybe its not perfect but it will always work out. When you bake as long as I do, I think you get a common sense what is working and what is not and of course I’m sure I tried at least 600 recipes and most of them worked the same way. The tricky recipes are the healthier ones where you try to omit regular ingredients with healthier ones. Especially when you can’t use flour.

First things first: Ingredients!

Sweet Potatoes: Since I always have sweet potatoes at home and I know that many healthy recipes call for them due to their starch and their natural sweetness I used one for my recipe.

Spinach: I added spinach because I love the taste and they give a nice green colouring.

Herbs: herbs because – Hey they are HERBS! They are awesome and give your dish that little extra taste kick. You can use whatever you like. I like mixed herbs with dill, parsley, chive and because its spring you could add wild garlic.

Eggs:I need something for the binding. Sure you could use instead two flaxseed eggs. Every person living a vegan lifestyle will know what is meant ;-).

Plant based milk: its optional. you can use it instead of the water in which the cashews are soaked.

Baking powder: the batter has to rise

The process of making!

So first I pricked a medium sized sweet potato (about 200g) and cooked it in my microwave on high for about 4-5 minutes. I turned on my waffle iron on medium high heat but I’m sure everyone know best which temperature works with his waffle iron.

While my sweet potato cooked I put the thawed spinach, the soaked cashews with the soaking water or with the plant based milk, eggs, herbs and salt into my food processor. When the sweet potato is cooked and peeled I added it to the other ingredients and blent everything until smooth and homogenous. At last I added the baking powder and just blent it for a couple of seconds. Don’t overdo it otherwise the baking powder will not do his job.

Let everything sit for a couple of minutes. The waffle dough will rise more.

When the skillet is hot use about 3 tablespoons of batter for one waffle. I cooked my waffles for about 7 minutes.

What is a waffle without the toppings.

Am I right or am I right ?!? The best part about waffles are the toppings.

You know there are thousands of possible choices on how to top your waffle but since I’m on a strict food diet my choices are a little bit limited. Since we have spring I used cooked green asparagus as one of my toppings. You know nothing is better than a looooot of goodies on my waffles.

My choice of toppings:

Green asparagus and cherry tomatoes: The easiest way is to simply bake the green stalks and tomatoes with some salt, pepper and olive oil in the oven.

Eggs: There has to be at least one egg on a savory breakfast waffle. Doesn’t matter which style But my preference at the moment is poached ;-).

Avocado slices: avocados are a perfect match for almost everything.

Green Pesto: I need a sauce for my waffles and there are 2 good reasons why a pesto is always a good choice. First its very easy to make and second it always tastes delicious .

Salad leaves: I always like some fresh salad leaves too for an added vitamin kick ;-).

This is a great recipe for every brunch or breakfast. You can make the waffles in advance and just heat them up in your microwave before serving it with the toppings. You can keep the waffles up to 4 days in your fridge in an airtight container.

I hope you will enjoy my recipe and please let me know how it is going for you. Tag us on our social media accounts @twosisterslivinglife or on Facebook we are more than happy to share your picture in our stories . IIf you have any questions leave us a comment. We will be more than happy to answer all of your questions.

LOVE Nina

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savory sweet potato and spinach waffles – gluten free, whole30 & lactose free

This is a delicious and easy recipe for guilt free savory waffles. They are made with spinach, sweet potatos, a lot of herbs and cashews. Ideal for breakfast, brunch or any other time of day.

• 1 sweet potato (medium size about 250g)
• 100 g frozen spinach (thawed)
• 100 cashews (unsalted)
• 3 eggs (large)
• 200 ml water (hot )
• 2 tbsp herbs (fresh or frozen)
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp coconut oil (for the waffle iron)

How I like to eat my waffles

• 12 cherry tomatoes
• 4 asparagus
• 1 tbsp coconut oil
• 1 avocado (sliced)
• 50 g rocket (or any other salad leaves)
• 4 eggs (poached or any style you want)

1. Soak the cashews for 10 minutes in the water

   Prick the sweet potato with a frok about 5-6 times and put the patoto for 4 minutes into the mircowave, peel the cooked potato

   put all ingredients except for the baking powder into a blender and blend on high until smooth, if the batter is to dry at some more water

   it should be like a thick pancake batter

   add the baking powder and blend another couple of seconds but dont over beat it.

   Heat your waffle iron to medium heat and grease the waffle surface with coconut oil.

   it depends on your waffle iron but use about 3-4 tbsp of batter for one waffle.

   cook the waffles as you usual do.

   The waffles should be brown at the ridges.

My toppings

1. Heat the oven to 220°C or 420°F

   Put the asparagus and the cherry tomatoes on a baking sheet and season everything with salt and olive oil

   Put the veggies into the oven and broil everything for then minutes.

   Slice the avocado in thin slices .

Puting everything together

1. take one wafle and add some salad leaves on top

   arange the one quarter of the avocado slices on one side 3 broiled cherry tomatoes on the other side.

   The middle is reserved for our hero the egg

   cut one brioled asparagus in half and arange on top

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